Publisher's Synopsis
1950s Cuba: Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom - over three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. Whilst the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, the two nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them - the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the racial hierarchies and violence. As Fidel and Raul Castro lead revolts from the mountains, torching plantations and kidnapping American expatriates, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming...
